The Kongsvinger Gazette
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
Erling Svensson is out at Kongsvinger
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad9 Apr 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Frederik Juul Christensen
83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kongsvinger lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
An empty coaching office at Kongsvinger
There is nobody left to promote and nobody left to run a session. The board have brought in a name the supporters do not know, and the question of how a club gets here will outlast whoever answers it.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
Interim Coach steps up at Kongsvinger for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
The dugout9 Apr 2029
Markus Flores says Kongsvinger went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Tempers go at Kongsvinger
Andreas Dybevik was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Kongsvinger
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Words at Kongsvinger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leon Hovland is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets9 Apr 2029
Rosenborg tell Kongsvinger: Emmanuel Mensah is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Match Sandefjord take the points off Kongsvinger
- Market Erling Meling steps up from the Kongsvinger academy
- Market One of our own: Bjorn Odegaard joins the Kongsvinger first team